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Pulitzer Center Update October 24, 2017

This Week: Cuban Migrants Lose a Foothold in the U.S.

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Cuban migrants stranded in Panama talk to journalists at the camp where they are housed in Gualaca in the western province of Chiriquí. Image by José A. Iglesias. Panama, 2017.
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The Obama administration’s decision to end the "wet foot, dry foot" policy has created a migration...

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Cuban migrant Rita María Triana at the entrance to a small apartment where she lives in Panama City. Image by Jose A. Iglesias. Panama, 2017.
Cuban migrant Rita María Triana at the entrance to a small apartment where she lives in Panama City. Image by Jose A. Iglesias. Panama, 2017.

Cubans Lost in Transit

Rolando Arrieta and Luis Trelles

Grantees Luis Trelles and Rolando Arrieta tell the remarkable story of three Cuban migrants who made a clandestine journey from Ecuador to El Paso. The Radio Ambulante broadcast on NPR is in Spanish (with English transcript), but it’s part of a larger project with the Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald and 14yMedio about a humanitarian crisis that began with the Obama administration’s decision to end the “wet foot, dry foot” policy in January 2017. That policy guaranteed residency to any Cuban who could reach the United States. Its abrupt termination cast more than 2,000 Cubans traveling throughout Latin America into a political no-man’s land.

The Codik family in the capital of the Dominican Republic circa 1940. Clockwise from top left: Bruno Codik, Irma Codik, Manfred Codik, Hella Blum, and Margot Labi. Image courtesy Codik family. Dominican Republic.
The Codik family in the capital of the Dominican Republic circa 1940. Clockwise from top left: Bruno Codik, Irma Codik, Manfred Codik, Hella Blum, and Margot Labi. Image courtesy Codik family. Dominican Republic.

A Holocaust Haven Becomes a Sex-Tourism Destination

Emily Codik

Even one’s own family history can be suspect terrain, as grantee Emily Codik discovered when she looked into how a safe haven for Holocaust refugees in the Dominican Republic became a sex-tourism hotspot.

 

The debate over whether or not to test genetically-modified mosquitoes has reached a fever pitch in Key West. Image by Tom/Flickr. 2010.
The debate over whether or not to test genetically-modified mosquitoes has reached a fever pitch in Key West. Image courtesy Tom / Flickr. 2010.

Man Vs. Mosquito

Mark Johnson

Grantee Mark Johnson, in a story for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today, looks at the long-running battle between man and mosquito. The pesky insect is the carrier of deadly diseases, but do humans have the right to exterminate an entire species through genetic manipulation?

 

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